Big birds, little birds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Big birds, little birds |
| Original title | Uccellacci e uccellini |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| script | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| production | Alfredo Bini |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera |
Mario Bernardo Tonino delli Colli |
| cut | Nino Baragli |
| occupation | |
Big birds, small birds (original title: Uccellacci e uccellini ) is a black and white Italian film by the director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1965 with Totò , Ninetto Davoli and Femi Benussi in the leading roles. The director wrote the script himself. The film first hit cinemas in his home country on May 4, 1966. Outside Italy, it was shown for the first time on May 13, 1966 at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d' Or, but did not receive the award. The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1966 on the Second German Television.
action
The focus of the film is on two people, father and son, who are not doing so badly, admittedly not particularly well. Marcellino can support his wife and his 18 children, the eldest of whom, Ninetto, accompanies him on a long walk here. He is a petty bourgeois and has settled in the modest place that has been allocated to him. Nothing could lead him to question the social order in which he was kicked and kicked, or to look beyond his petty-bourgeois horizons with the help of reading he learned at school 40 years ago.
This becomes clear when a speaking raven offers himself to the two hikers as a companion. The raven points out unpleasant facts, such as hunger in the world, and also tells them a strange story from the year 1200, when Francis of Assisi commissioned two men like you to preach the gospel to the animals for so long, until they stopped killing each other. But Marcellino and Ninetto like to be entertained by the raven, just as they later enjoy the show of a juggler's troupe from the bottom of their hearts, but when the raven becomes personal and even questions their behavior, they simply switch off and do not listen to him . When the raven does not want to understand at all that they do not want any teaching and certainly not a conversion, they simply turn their necks and eat them up.
music
The credits are sung in the opening credits . According to the composer Ennio Morricone , this was an idea of Pasolini. He thought up “deliberately silly music, almost a nursery rhyme”, to which Domenico Modugno sang the cast list.
criticism
“Pasolini's quirky film fable is as funny as it is profound; the playful handling of ideologies (and their tracing back to everyday practice) prepares aesthetic pleasure and intellectual pleasure. "
“As simple as this animal fable is, its thoughts are so diverse, the language is so rich in allusions and allusions. As simple-minded as Marcellino and Ninetto walk their streets, life is different to them. Despite the comedic and comical nature of the portrayal, the birth of a child, which you are attending, is inherent in the joy that a birth can trigger. [...] A poetic film that requires special understanding. "
“Pasolini's latest film, a film that invites you to think for yourself, is not just a piece of perfect film poetry. With his resolute rejection of all ideologies, he also forms an attractive contrast to the current dialogue of world views. As a parable that is not intended to be a recipe, it is also ideally suited for critical and clarifying discussions in schools and communities. "
Awards (selection)
In addition to a nomination for the entire production for the Golden Palm, Totò received a Globo d'oro in 1967 for his performance .
Web links
- The Hawks and the Sparrows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- About the film at filmgalerie451.de
- A few pictures from the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 273/1966, pp. 522 to 524.
- ↑ quoted from: Better Webern than Western! , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 2014, p. 13.
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1434.
- ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter 1966, p. 698. The Evangelical Film Guild voted “Big Birds, Little Birds” as the best film of September 1966.